Pulitzer Prize Recipient Author. He is one of four authors who received the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction more than once. Besides being a Pulitzer Prize novelist, he published poems in the "New Yorker" magazine along with eight collections, at least 12 collections of short-stories along with being an art critic and literary critic for "The New York Review of Books." He was a prolific man of letters and an erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in postwar America. Considered one of the most prominent contemporary American novelists of his time, his works included over 50 books in a career that began in the 1950s. He received virtually every literary prize, including two Pulitzer Prizes, for "Rabbit Is Rich" in 1980 and "Rabbit at Rest" in 1990, and two National Book Awards. After graduating at the top of his high school class and receiving writing awards as a teenager, he received a full scholarship to Harvard College, graduating summa cum laude in 1954 with a degree in English. Following attending the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford, he relocated to New York City and started his professional career at the "New Yorker" magazine. He married twice, divorced once, and had two daughters and two sons with his first wife. His image was on the cover of "Time" magazine twice.
Pulitzer Prize Recipient Author. He is one of four authors who received the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction more than once. Besides being a Pulitzer Prize novelist, he published poems in the "New Yorker" magazine along with eight collections, at least 12 collections of short-stories along with being an art critic and literary critic for "The New York Review of Books." He was a prolific man of letters and an erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in postwar America. Considered one of the most prominent contemporary American novelists of his time, his works included over 50 books in a career that began in the 1950s. He received virtually every literary prize, including two Pulitzer Prizes, for "Rabbit Is Rich" in 1980 and "Rabbit at Rest" in 1990, and two National Book Awards. After graduating at the top of his high school class and receiving writing awards as a teenager, he received a full scholarship to Harvard College, graduating summa cum laude in 1954 with a degree in English. Following attending the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford, he relocated to New York City and started his professional career at the "New Yorker" magazine. He married twice, divorced once, and had two daughters and two sons with his first wife. His image was on the cover of "Time" magazine twice.
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